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  1. 3 minutes ago

    . says was created to strengthen the response in Birmingham. The organization's Serving Corps employs local residents to help the community. There have been 350 placements with 65% being Black workers and majority women.

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  2. 10 minutes ago

    “We can’t afford to miss the next great inventor just because she’s a female or a minority and we can’t miss out on the next great innovative business just because that idea didn’t make its way from the valley," says on entrepreneurs struggling during the pandemic.

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  3. 14 minutes ago

    The WORK NOW act, introduced by , would create a $50 billion grant program to help nonprofits retain employees and employ millions of unemployed Americans helping fellow Americans. This would help put people back to work following the pandemic.

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  4. 16 minutes ago

    . points to the as a success in reviving the economy after the Great Depression. "We should follow the Great Depression model directly," she says.

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  5. 20 minutes ago

    . says 800 business closed every day, and over 400 small businesses have closed for good since began. “Now is the time for action. We are not facing small challenges.”

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  6. 24 minutes ago

    . kicks off our event by highlighting the "staggering economic, health, and social impacts," of the pandemic. "Millions of workers [have been pushed] to the financial brink," and disproportionately people of color, she says.

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  7. 54 minutes ago

    Tune in at 2pm to hear speakers discuss how a large-scale, federally funded employment initiative could drive a worker-focused economic recovery. Register:

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  8. 1 hour ago

    .: If one party continues to confront challenges for a majority of Americans, while the other stokes the hostility and indignation held by a significant minority, it would be an unsustainable situation for Americans in communities of all sizes.

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  9. 2 hours ago

    Tune in today at 2pm to hear Senator discuss how expanding national service programs can meet the needs of the moment and drive a worker-focused economic recovery. Register:

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  10. 3 hours ago

    The nation’s recovery from COVID-19 is starkly uneven, with an unemployment rate that is 80% higher for Black workers than white ones, says. 90% of firms owned by people of color did not receive COVID-19 relief loans from the CARES Act.

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  11. 4 hours ago

    Small and nonmetropolitan areas in Texas continued to vote strongly Republican in 2020. But the demographic shifts taking place within the state’s metropolitan areas—especially its suburbs—stand to make it even more competitive in future elections.

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  12. 5 hours ago

    . & : The stark economic rift between Democrats and Republicans documented after Donald Trump’s shocking 2016 victory has grown even wider.

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  13. 6 hours ago

    North Carolina, Florida + Texas all showed lower Republican margins or flips to Democratic support for most or all white voting blocs, especially white female college graduates. But they did not receive enough shifts from other groups for a Biden victory.

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  14. 16 hours ago

    Biden flipped half of the 10 most economically significant counties Trump won in 2016, writes. These include Phoenix’s Maricopa County;  Jacksonville, Fla.’s Duval County and Morris County in New Jersey.

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  15. 18 hours ago

    Only one of the nearly 200 metro areas tracked in the Brookings Metro Recovery Index —Ocala, Fla.—had returned to its pre-pandemic jobs baseline in September. Salt Lake City, Oklahoma City, and Indianapolis were close to their January job levels.

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  16. 20 hours ago

    The successful ballot initiative that raised the minimum wage is noteworthy in Florida—a red state with two Republican Senators, a Republican-controlled state legislature, and a Republican governor who opposed the minimum wage hike, says.

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  17. 21 hours ago

    William H. Frey: Nonmetropolitan areas showed especially outsized Republican advantages in Trump’s 2016 victory, and his 2020 margin there stood at a whopping 34%.

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  18. 23 hours ago

    Liberals and conservatives aren’t necessarily divided by their political philosophies; the wedge is racism, writes .

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  19. Nov 17

    William H. Frey: Michigan’s flip to Biden’s column in 2020 is due in part to an especially strong shift in female college graduate support.

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  20. Nov 17

    2020’s map continues the striking split, evident in 2016, between the large, dense, metropolitan counties that voted Democratic and the mostly exurban, small-town, or rural counties that voted Repub, , Eli Byerly-Duke, , say.

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